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Professor Pat Roberts retires after teaching students the importance of words

Despite numerous run-ins with cars over the years, Pat Roberts still has a passion for running and cycling. Now that she’s retired from the School of Law, she may be trading her road bike for a mountain bike and heading to the wilds of Southern Utah to explore the sandstone and red-rock desert where her daughter gives guided mountain bike tours.


Professor Larry West shared his passion for German with students for four decades

Boys being boys, they’ll dare each other on a whim to do wild and crazy stuff. Which explains why Larry West has enjoyed a long and venerable career as a college German professor. That career, spent almost entirely at Wake Forest, drew to a close this spring with his retirement from the Department of German and Russian. Behind him, the 68-year-old West leaves a redoubtable legacy as a teacher, scholar and study-abroad administrator, along with a cadre of devoted colleagues and former students who have been inspired by his dedication and regaled by his wit.


Theatre students teach local children

Wake Forest theatre students have been regularly visiting an elementary school in Winston-Salem this year to use theatre to help the students learn about whatever the subject at hand is — fractions, Martin Luther King Jr., St. Patrick’s Day or polygons.